Changing technology: Millenials And Mobiles

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“I’d rather give up, like a kidney, than my phone. How did you

manage before? Carrier pigeons?

Letters?” – Cameron Kirk

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Phones used to be utilized for just that, phoning people. No internet or status updates or photographs to look at.

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Now there are 775,000 apps available for iPhone users, 300,000 native to iPads.

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With heightened accessibility and technology’s increasing importance and value to society an 8 year old can work a

mobile phone better than an 82 year old

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Society is lighting the fuse that has to

lead to the explosion of teenagers and

phone addiction

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‘“I think that cellphones are something that teenagers can’t live without because we are always living in the now and

technology allows us to be constantly updated on everything that is happening” senior Matthew Douglas said.’

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It’s said that the wealth of phone manufacturers is due to versions.

Millenials are the biggest version demographic

Out with the old

In with the new

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Classroom distractions used to be note

passing and spitballs

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Now it’s browsing instagram or twitter for an entire class. Mobile phones have made it much

harder to pay attention to your surroundings.

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With the development of the smart phone came the development of more uses for it. It became a phone as

well as an mp3, camera, computer, and credit card all in one.

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Teenagers have become

attached to their phones

as though it were

another limb

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Remember having to remember to bring your camera to events with you? It is now the standard for a phones to come

with a quality camera built in.

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The Millenials have become a generation of

mass photographers

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Photography has also become less of a niche interest in teenagers, the majority of Millenials now use photo apps such

as instagram and edit them as well.

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“The whole world becomes a photo agency at that point. More so than ever

before.”

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Mobiles provide the Millenials with a constant distraction within arms reach. Along with social media

apps, phones also became video game consoles.

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Mobile phones have changed the way teenagers interact.

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Before smartphones typically you’d call or text someone to know what they’re doing, who they’re with or where they are, now via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram you don’t even

have to ask.

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Computers are of lesser importance to the Millenials as before because they can as easily surf the web on their

phones.

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“One in four young people say they are “cell-mostly” Internet users

a percentage that increases to about half when the phone is a smartphone.”

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For many, mobile phones have become apart of the day’s outfit.

With thousands of available cases for purchase dressing up your phone has become highly fashionable and makes it even more

personalized.

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The implications that mobiles have had on the Millenials are both good and bad, though the

majority of them bad

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Mobile phones have helped to keep people connected, but at what price? Mobiles have meant that teenagers are

never truly alone.

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They are always messaging, viewing people’s photos and thoughts. So that when they are alone, without their phone,

they are not equipped to deal with it and often feel depressed

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Mobiles have led millenials to rarely truly be focused on one thing, their attention is split between multiple things at

nearly all times.

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Phones and the advancement of its functions has also led to relationship strain and hardships. Paranoia is also often caused if you

are not getting a response but see them tweet.

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Though the millenials are the future, and mobile phones will help increase productivity and are extremely significant to the economy, it

is important to note the downfalls of millenial mobile addiction and take steps to moderate mobile use.

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Sources:

http://readwrite.com/2013/04/08/teenagers-smartphones-how-theyre-changing-the-world

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/instagram-and-the-new-era-of-paparazzi/?ref=technology

http://www.ctvnews.ca/more-youth-use-smartphones-to-log-online-u-s-report-1.1193559#ixzz2Qnxqu5cd